That's also known as "sticker grafitti" by putting so many stickers on a traincar. I've seen it in New York's subway cars, bumper sticker graffitti and even now window scratchitti has appeared as well.

Also the Red Line (a few cars) have even window scratchiti of its own including some 01800s as well.

I don't like the joke. The "map" is not even politically correct: some "lefty" topics are on the right, and some "righty" topics are on the left! I don't buy it The guy needs to take POLSC101 in addition to whatever art class he has taken...

Count me among those who have no use for artists who deface public property that then has to be cleaned up with my tax dollars. I'm sure that out-of-towners who actually need to use the map are thrilled too.

Has anyone seen the advertisements for the new bioterrorism research center BU wants to build in Boston? I've only seen them on the Orange Line, but they're probably on other lines as well. Each one is a different reason on why the new research lab would be safe for the city, and should be built, etc, etc.

Anyways, today on the Orange Line, I noticed that someone had made up computerized stickers that says "BU Lies" and placed them on each of BU's advertisements in the particular car I was in.

It was a much simpler form of this "sticker grafitti", but along the same lines.

BC Eagle wrote:Has anyone seen the advertisements for the new bioterrorism research center BU wants to build in Boston? I've only seen them on the Orange Line, but they're probably on other lines as well.

Probably only see those ads on the Orange Line because the research center is proposed to be built in Roxbury, closer to the Orange Line than any other line.

All you authoritarian types can carp away but I love it. I think they're great and done on a small enough scale that they're not particularly disruptive. I wouldn't live here if there weren't creative people screwing around with things all the time, leaving little surprises to catch people off guard.

It reminds me of the realistic-looking orange road construction sign someone had up in Coolidge Corner a few years ago that read

Hey, you have your opinion and I have mine and it's obvious we're not going to agree. I understand the cost involved. Art don't come cheap. Next time I see these guys putting things up, I'll be sure to block for them.

In the car I saw this in, not all of the signs were covered. It clearly wasn't a malicious act to inconvenience the riding public.

Hell, there are people quite convinced that the public art for which a lot of MBTA stations are well regarded is a profligate theft of taxpayer money and valuable station space, too. Just because some committee decreed it inoffensive (as all public art surely should be, right?) doesn't make it any better in my eyes.

At MIT, in fact, this stuff happens so much that people look forward to the next time they discover something like it. Community officials understand and deal with it good-naturedly, and the great majority of people affected seem to think it makes a positive contribution to quality of life. The hackers themselves are very good-natured about it, abiding by guidelines to do no damage, not to endager people, etc. This seems in keeping with that philosophy.

I didn't hear anyone griping when the "Reverse Curve" sign kept getting "vandalized," not even the state officials who finally legitimized the "vandalism" in a special ceremony that backed up traffic for miles.